California Welfare and Institutions Code CHAPTER 1.6 - General Provisions

  • Section 4507.
    Developmental disabilities alone shall not constitute sufficient justification for judicial commitment. Instead, persons with developmental disabilities shall receive services pursuant to this division. Persons who...
  • Section 4508.
    Persons with developmental disabilities may be released from developmental centers for provisional placement, with parental consent in the case of a minor or with the...
  • Section 4509.
    By January 1, 1977, the Director of Developmental Services shall compile a roster of all persons who are in the custody of a state hospital,...
  • Section 4510.
    The State Department of Developmental Services, the State Department of Health Care Services, and the State Department of State Hospitals shall jointly develop and implement...
  • Section 4511.
    (a) The Legislature finds and declares that meeting the needs and honoring the choices of persons with developmental disabilities and their families requires information, skills and...
  • Section 4512.
    As used in this division:(a) “Developmental disability” means a disability that originates before an individual attains 18 years of age; continues, or can be expected to...
  • Section 4513.
    (a) Whenever the department allocates funds to a regional center through a request for proposal process to implement special projects funded through the Budget Act, the...
  • Section 4514.
    All information and records obtained in the course of providing intake, assessment, and services under Division 4.1 (commencing with Section 4400), Division 4.5 (commencing with...
  • Section 4514.3.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 4514, information and records shall be disclosed to the protection and advocacy agency designated by the Governor in this state to fulfill the...
  • Section 4514.5.
    Upon request of a family member of a resident of a state hospital, community care facility, or health facility, or other person designated by the...
  • Section 4515.
    Signed consent forms by a person with a developmental disability or, where appropriate, the parent, guardian, or conservator, for release of any information to which...
  • Section 4516.
    When any disclosure of information or records is made as authorized by the provisions of subdivision (a), (d), or (q) of Section 4514 or Section...
  • Section 4517.
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the compilation and publication of statistical data for use by government or researchers and standards set...
  • Section 4518.
    Any person may bring an action against an individual who has willfully and knowingly released confidential information or records concerning him or her in violation...
  • Section 4519.
    (a) The department shall not expend funds, and a regional center shall not expend funds allocated to it by the department, for the purchase of any...
  • Section 4519.5.
    (a) The department and the regional centers shall annually collaborate to compile data in a uniform manner relating to purchase of service authorization, utilization, and expenditure...
  • Section 4519.6.
    The department and the regional centers shall annually collaborate to determine the most appropriate methods to collect and compile meaningful data in a uniform manner,...
  • Section 4519.7.
    (a) Any regional center employee shall not be liable for civil damages on account of an injury or death resulting from an employee’s act or omission...
  • Section 4519.8.
    On or before March 1, 2019, the department shall submit a rate study to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature addressing the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018